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System Mastery 313 – 1978 (The Night They Came Home) Ween closes out with a bang, as we discuss a game designed to cover *cough* a wide variety of different […]

System Mastery 312 – Army of Darkness Oh man, I don’t know if I should just put a bunch of movie quotes here (nah, the book already made me sick […]

System Mastery 311 – Tales from the Floating Vagabond 2e, Part 2 Sorry it’s been a while friends! This episode is special and it took some work to get it […]

System Mastery 310 – Tales from the Floating Vagabond 2e Part of this job is getting to hold extremely weird things in our hands, things we never expected to be […]

System Mastery 309 – Invisible Sun Lore Yeah yeah, we did the thing. God knows there was plenty more content. James is still here to help us process all this […]

System Mastery 308 – Invisible Sun This is almost certainly the largest product we’ve ever attempted to review! As a result there are some gaps in coverage here. We may […]

System Mastery 307 – Micro Games Roundup 2 Let’s lay out what we’re discussing here this week. It’s three games (in four books) comprising Clever Girl, #Flirt Squad, and Anyone […]

System Mastery 306 – The Expanse More TV sci-fi! More TV sci-fi! Actually wait, hold on, this one is based on the books. No TV in here, which is probably […]

System Mastery 305 – Time Lord Who loves Doctor Who? Specifically and exclusively any Doctor Who made before 1991? Not us it turns out, though this game is pretty fun! […]

System Mastery 304 – Runequest (1984) This is one of the venerable old giants of the fantasy gaming industry. Avalon Hill producing Chaosium’s Runequest. Couldn’t be more classic. But how […]

System Mastery 302 – Capers By all account, this is the first ever superhero RPG, but don’t let that fool you, it contains virtually nothing you’d recognize as a superhero […]

System Mastery 302 – Capers Okay the rumors that we like every supers game are scurrilous, devious, and increasingly accurate. This is Capers, and it’s a supers game set in […]

System Mastery 301 – The Arcanum Hi folks, let’s start up another 300 of these, what do you say? This one is about The Arcanum, an early 80s game that […]

System Mastery 300 – Palladium Fantasy Well that certainly was 300 times we did a thing, I tell you what! Let’s take a little victory lap by cracking open a […]

System Mastery 299 – Bleeding Heart We’re hard at work on our giant pile of weird old box sets, and that means it’s time for Bleeding Heart, a game that […]

System Mastery 298 – Wild West I really hope you’re enjoying this string of very old games, we’re doing our best to get back into them quickly (ever since I […]

System Mastery 297 – Star Trek the Roleplaying Game Can we review an 80s Star Trek game without our pacemakers exploding? What if FASA made it? We’re looking at the […]

System Mastery 296 – Lewd Dungeon Adventures Finally someone bought that game that advertises on Facebook, and it was us. It’s a fantasy adventure game with some sex-themed rules, but […]

System Mastery 295 – Insurgent A very quick little modern game designed to be played solo or with a small group but no GM, in which you rebel against something. […]

System Mastery 294 – OGL Ancients It’s what it says! Though it’s adding a lot of stuff to the venerable old combat engine of 3.X OGL, it’s an OGL game […]

System Mastery 293 – Alas Vegas This is a little recent for our usual stuff, but Jon was really interested after the Fastlane review to keep looking at games that […]

System Mastery 292 – Unbidden Back to basics, some game you probably never heard of that we didn’t like. That’s the basic essence of the show, right? It has to […]

System Mastery 291 – Fastlane Oh buddy you better believe we love it when the game has a weird alternative randomizing mechanic, and this thing is all about roulette. Yes, […]

System Mastery 290 – Icarus As we bring Sweater Weather to a close we are faced with the realization that we accidentally double-themed this month, since both of these games […]

System Mastery 289 – The Quiet Year Hey folks, welcome to Sweater Weather. We’re going to keep things light and distracting here for the next few months, sweater weather or […]